282: Thursday 6th August 2015

I had this week off work (and next week) so that I could do some upgrades indoors and get the Lithium batteries in and working in the Probatron. I spent time yesterday finishing of the connectors. They needed to be drilled and ground to remove burrs. Today I made the hold down bars, mounted the batteries and connected them together. Tomorrow I shall switch the connections from the old batteries and give it a run on Lithium for the first time. I sent my Zivan NG3 charger back on Friday to have the processor changed so it can charge Lithium and to have a disable link added so I can use my JLD404 to cut the charger if the voltage gets too high. After that I want to revert my instrument cluster back to original and add the gauge driver circuit I got from ZEVA in Australia﻿. This will make my fuel gauge show state of charge and the rev counter show instantaneous Amps x 100.

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I am an automotive Engineer with a background of electrical and electronic engineering.
My interest in converting cars to electric is to preserve modern classics by adding electric drive thus reducing maintenance and improving driving. I like being green, but prefer the thrill of the torque when driving electric cars. Most electric cars are either cheap and ugly or good looking but too expensive. I hope to fill some of the middle ground before the major manufacturers get their fingers in.